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Replies 5 Post by lucerne

denwood, the first year Ford 6 litre had alot of problems, they all had electrical/computer problems that for a while the dealers couldn't fix. I saw one on a lot a 3500 dump, with 12000 miles, spotless. I asked if it was forsale, they said no, it was going to be crushed as soon as Ford picked it up. No one was allowed to buy it at any price, they wanted it off the street.Another one with 20,000 miles at a dealer was marked so low and was in such good shape I had to try it out, it didn't idle and ran like it was about to blow. The 7.3's didn't leak oil but the oil pans rust out which you have to remove the engine to change. As far as Dodge, the delivery truck that delivered my 10 ton trailer was a Dodge, he had 36,000 lbs of trailers stacked on behind. I asked him how long he thought he could get away with that, he said, that it had a boost kit on the turbo, it was I believe a 2002 or 03 and had 303,000 miles on it, he said he thought it was doing pretty good, where, that all it has ever done is haul those kind of loads all over the country.He has had no problems so far.

Anyone have leaky dodge cummins
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 25 Post by lucerne

Art, they're a motorized dust pan. Only thing I can see they are good for is in a barn with a cement floor for cleaning up manure. Or moving material for landscapers in tight spots.

tractorless
Case
Replies 12 Post by lucerne

Anyone know where I can get specs on a Case 580se,as in lift capacities, break out force,hp, etc. Thanks

Case 580se backhoe
Case
Replies 1 Post by lucerne

yooper, Ive been designing houses and project managing for years. I bought the other equipment to do some of the work and because I enjoyed it so much.It seemed that I had to do houses to keep my equipment insured, maintained and payed for I guess it's back to the same old same old. Too many irons in the fire.

Sold out
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by lucerne

All are good choices. The biggest and first choice should be the dealer and mechanical service after the sale. I learned the hard way, if you have a dealer that loves your money but your on your own after they get your wad of cash. I would lean toward the 3400 just because I had one, loved it and had no problems. As far as hydro or std shift, if you are plowing and not using the bucket alot for piling snow the std will be fine and will save a few bucks. I know the 3400 has good lift capacity on the bucket and 3 point, it did have a two stage clutch for mowing (push part way down to shift but the mower keeps running) unless you push down the other half. But as I said, most of all service service service.

Overwhelmed
New Holland Tractors
Replies 6 Post by lucerne

The grass is always greener over the septic!!!

Not sure how to title this question
Garden and Landscape
Replies 3 Post by lucerne

I got one recently on my old DT 3000 which is a 3400, it was for other models too. It was for freezing bucket controll valves in winter.

KUBOTA RECAL
Kubota Tractors
Replies 2 Post by lucerne

At a rate of around 1.30 per hour for each 1000.00 spent on the machine, you should be able to figure what you can do with what machine and compare it to other machines larger or smaller, work to dollar hour comparison. Which one would you hire at what price? You need to define what you are going to do, mow,hoe, bucket work,till, and compare work done to dollar hour also. You might take two hours to till a certian garden at 27.00 when a larger machine can till it in 1 hour, deeper and more thorough at 40 per hour.Can a machine your looking at take this kind of use, what will be the repair cost compared to the other? If you are going to narrow your work down to a couple of chores like tilling, can you till a garden for someone in an area that has not been sod busted before? If you are going to narrow your job description, don't get a machine that will narrow it even further by saying, no I can't till that because it is very hard rocky ground or my tiller only cuts so deep. No I can't grade your driveway because it is too dry and hard now, should have called me during the first week after rain season. Just things to think about. As my father said, always buy the best, you'll never be sorry. Not always the biggest, but the best for the job.I hired a JD 790 with a tiller to break up a field that I was going to remove the top soil from and build a house. He compained about how rocky it was and hard on his tiller. I noticed when cutting the soil off that the tiller didn't cut very deep and I also notice that when I was removing the soil, in places 2.5 feet deep, that I could cut it right off and load my bucket full with just pushing power, there where very few small rocks, mostly garden loam. A larger machine would have tilled it much deeper,faster, and never felt a rock.It was about as nice tilling as you could get for untouched field.

JD 2210 for small business
John Deere Tractors
Replies 12 Post by lucerne

I have direcway, it is wide open to anything so a good spyware and antivirus is a must CA is good. You need a good shot at the southern sky, the further north the closer to the horizon the satelite is so keep that in mind. If you get bad weather it might stop it but I have found it is usually snow build up on the dish, wipe it off and your up again so think about mounting it where you can access it. Also if they have bad weather you might be down, remember they have to send the info your sending or recieving over their ground based dishes, so if they are snowed in then you are down. You would think they would put their home bases in Fla but mine is out of DC.Service, there is none. Once you spend the money for the equipment and sign the bottom line your pretty much on your own so get a good local instalation company that will be there when you need them, Direcway is useless, you call and are connected to India to someone reading a book to you. They all say the same thing every time. Deleeet yur cooowkies.

Satellite Broadband
Website Operations Howto
Replies 24 Post by lucerne

Thats a steal at that price. does the 3400 offer hst though?

13 500 - for a new L3400 4d hst fel - Good price
Kubota Tractors
Replies 5 Post by lucerne

Should check the torque on the wheels fairly often. The manual will tell you how often. I have seen 3 1 ton duellys with the rear wheels off and in the road in the past few weeks. One GMC and 2 Fords. I wonder if it isn't the extreme cold? All plow trucks, maybe the constant forward reverse changes?

4310 Rear Wheel Lug Nuts Loosening
John Deere Tractors
Replies 10 Post by lucerne

Check out the TN 55 before you make a move.

tc45 or tc55
New Holland Tractors
Replies 4 Post by lucerne

Something I used the other day on my dump truck because my block heater didn't have an end on it, was a magnetic electric block heater. You stick it to the base pan and it heats the oil and the oil heats the rest of the engine, it seemed to work fast. Heat rises so it mounts in the right place.

Starting BX in Real Cold Weather
Kubota Tractors
Replies 47 Post by lucerne

FWIW Was just looking at the Iron Planet Jan 27 auction listings. There is a nice low hour JD 4300 with mower, a JD 30 hydraulic hammer,a nice Valby? I think, chipper. A few good things this auction and at least real low starting prices.

auction items JD4300 hyd hammer etc
Operating and Attachments
Replies 1 Post by lucerne

denwood, it seems the JD dealers are just people that sold cars or furniture last week. At least in this area. If the computer can't tell them, they don't know. I asked my dealer for grease fittings for a 110 and he had to look them up and then found that he better order them because he didn't dare cross match. I would say that their computers don't give them a size either, just a number. JD has almost gone the way of Harley Davidson, we'll sell ya the stuff at an inflated price but don't ask me anything about the machine your buying.

Grease fittings
John Deere Tractors
Replies 6 Post by lucerne

I hate mice, snakes, bears, 50 cyotes no problem, mice no way. I had a nest on the engine of my duelly, don't know when they found the time to build it or if they rode up there when I used the truck. Found one in my barbecue grill, I turned it on and a mouse ran out like a rocket, stopped about 10 feet away and looked at me like I was crazy. So I didn't use the grill again untill a friend of mine came by with his dog. The dog loves to catch mice. So Matt got the dog over by the grill, he had his head resting on the shelf under the grill, Matt opened the grill, took out the grates and tryed to catch the mouse with his hands while I stood my distance, the mouse ran deeper down in the grill, jumped out the drip tray hole in the bottom, jumped out of the drip tray right into the dogs open mouth to hide. Wasn't the dog surprised and pleased.

Mice
Parts and Repair
Replies 39 Post by lucerne

Can't find anything from Curtis for JD 110, if you find a link post it for me would ya? Thanks

-17 degrees F
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 77 Post by lucerne

Went to Fed Ex today and missed the turn. Went a little further to turn around, what, whats this? tractors? red ones? I had to turn there, real slow, I was afraid to stop. It's a new dealer in Bangor or the town next door, Hermon, same thing. Lots of nice lookin big red tractors. A new Dealer in town, a new brand, how long can I keep away??? hmmm??? Oh man this kinda stuff gets me in trouble every time.

New Massey Ferguson Dealer
Antique Tractors
Replies 1 Post by lucerne

jones, did you get them from the dealer?

Want a John Deere service manual
John Deere Tractors
Replies 16 Post by lucerne